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* TorchesAndPitchforks: A posse led by Jake Armstrong attempts to lynch the Medusan who killed Jake's brother Matt and two other humans. However, they are stopped by Joshua Finch, the newly arrived Fifth Circuit judge.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: A posse led by Jake Armstrong attempts to lynch the Medusan who killed Jake's brother Matt and two other humans. However, they are stopped by Joshua Finch, the newly arrived Fifth Circuit judge.judge.
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* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Judge Joshua Finch wields a firearm while everybody else wields laser guns. When he confronts a LynchMob, they mock his weapon for being inferior, but he defeats them with ease.
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* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Judge Joshua Finch wields a firearm while everybody else wields laser guns. When he confronts a LynchMob, [[TorchesAndPitchforks lynch mob]], they mock his weapon for being inferior, but he defeats them with ease.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Only by cutting through the darkness of ignorance and prejudice can we achieve true justice.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Only by cutting through the darkness of ignorance and prejudice can we achieve true justice.justice.
!!Rule of Tropes:
* AlienSky: Daedalus has a purple sky and two moons.
* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Judge Joshua Finch wields a firearm while everybody else wields laser guns. When he confronts a LynchMob, they mock his weapon for being inferior, but he defeats them with ease.
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: The Daedalus colony has a marketplace with many different alien species.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Narkopta have a two hour daily hibernation period.
* BizarreAlienLimbs: The Medusans have pincer appendages for arms.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: The Medusans lay eggs. During the hatching process, the hatchlings absorb energy from tritium bricks. They cannot survive the hatching process without this energy.
* CircuitJudge: Judge Joshua Finch travels to the planet Daedalus to preside over the case of a Medusan accused of attacking humans.
* CourtroomEpisode: This episode involves Judge Joshua Finch, newly arrived on the colony planet Daedalus, presiding over the trial of a Medusan who is accused of the murder of three humans.
* DueToTheDead: The Medusans place their dead on racks and burn their bodies so that they can pass on to the afterlife. Although they killed Matt Armstrong and two others in the process of defending their hatchlings, they nevertheless performed the same ceremony on them. However, the burned bodies were later found by a posse led by Matt's brother Jake, who regarded it as desecrating the dead.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: This episode features an alien being put on trial for murdering a human. The prosecuting attorney is racist against aliens and pushes for an execution, but when everybody learns ''why'' the alien killed the guy (the guy smashed the alien's unhatched eggs with full knowledge of what they were), he sides with the protagonists.
* FantasticRacism: Lavinia Oleaga justifies stealing the Medusans' tritium bricks, which are required for their young to hatch, on the basis that they are "subhuman savages." She adds that their children could die for all she cares.
* FishPeople: The Medusans are crustacean-like humanoids who lay eggs.
* InnocentAliens: The Medusans, the indigenous population of Daedalus, are a peaceful and deeply spiritual species who only resort to violence in order to defend themselves or their eggs.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: This episode was an attempt at a new spin-off series, but it wasn't picked up.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Miranda is a simulated human (SIM).
* {{Robocam}}: Several shots are seen from Miranda's perspective.
* SpaceWestern: A very straightforward example since this episode takes place on a colony planet named Daedalus which has been colonized by Earth authorities. The human inhabitants have poor relations with and discriminate against the planet's indigenous population, the Medusans, who are [[SpaceJews based on]] UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans. It's essentially TheThemeParkVersion of TheWildWest with aliens.
* {{Technophobia}}: Judge Joshua Finch left Earth and took up the assignment of Fifth Circuit judge on the relatively isolated colony planet Daedalus because he hates anything to do with technology.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: A posse led by Jake Armstrong attempts to lynch the Medusan who killed Jake's brother Matt and two other humans. However, they are stopped by Joshua Finch, the newly arrived Fifth Circuit judge.
!!Rule of Tropes:
* AlienSky: Daedalus has a purple sky and two moons.
* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Judge Joshua Finch wields a firearm while everybody else wields laser guns. When he confronts a LynchMob, they mock his weapon for being inferior, but he defeats them with ease.
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: The Daedalus colony has a marketplace with many different alien species.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Narkopta have a two hour daily hibernation period.
* BizarreAlienLimbs: The Medusans have pincer appendages for arms.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: The Medusans lay eggs. During the hatching process, the hatchlings absorb energy from tritium bricks. They cannot survive the hatching process without this energy.
* CircuitJudge: Judge Joshua Finch travels to the planet Daedalus to preside over the case of a Medusan accused of attacking humans.
* CourtroomEpisode: This episode involves Judge Joshua Finch, newly arrived on the colony planet Daedalus, presiding over the trial of a Medusan who is accused of the murder of three humans.
* DueToTheDead: The Medusans place their dead on racks and burn their bodies so that they can pass on to the afterlife. Although they killed Matt Armstrong and two others in the process of defending their hatchlings, they nevertheless performed the same ceremony on them. However, the burned bodies were later found by a posse led by Matt's brother Jake, who regarded it as desecrating the dead.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: This episode features an alien being put on trial for murdering a human. The prosecuting attorney is racist against aliens and pushes for an execution, but when everybody learns ''why'' the alien killed the guy (the guy smashed the alien's unhatched eggs with full knowledge of what they were), he sides with the protagonists.
* FantasticRacism: Lavinia Oleaga justifies stealing the Medusans' tritium bricks, which are required for their young to hatch, on the basis that they are "subhuman savages." She adds that their children could die for all she cares.
* FishPeople: The Medusans are crustacean-like humanoids who lay eggs.
* InnocentAliens: The Medusans, the indigenous population of Daedalus, are a peaceful and deeply spiritual species who only resort to violence in order to defend themselves or their eggs.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: This episode was an attempt at a new spin-off series, but it wasn't picked up.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Miranda is a simulated human (SIM).
* {{Robocam}}: Several shots are seen from Miranda's perspective.
* SpaceWestern: A very straightforward example since this episode takes place on a colony planet named Daedalus which has been colonized by Earth authorities. The human inhabitants have poor relations with and discriminate against the planet's indigenous population, the Medusans, who are [[SpaceJews based on]] UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans. It's essentially TheThemeParkVersion of TheWildWest with aliens.
* {{Technophobia}}: Judge Joshua Finch left Earth and took up the assignment of Fifth Circuit judge on the relatively isolated colony planet Daedalus because he hates anything to do with technology.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: A posse led by Jake Armstrong attempts to lynch the Medusan who killed Jake's brother Matt and two other humans. However, they are stopped by Joshua Finch, the newly arrived Fifth Circuit judge.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' As humanity spreads to the stars, we will take with us our values and our laws. But how will those laws and moral judgements apply to creatures and cultures alien to our own?
A judge travels to another planet to preside over the case of an alien accused of attacking and killinghumans.humans.
-->'''The Control Voice:''' Only by cutting through the darkness of ignorance and prejudice can we achieve true justice.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Only by cutting through the darkness of ignorance and prejudice can we achieve true justice.
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